One theory is that homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or
fear, can be expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process
a “reaction formation” — the angry battle against the outward symbol of
feelings that are inwardly being stifled. Even Mr. Haggard seemed to
endorse this idea when, apologizing after his scandal for his anti-gay
rhetoric, he said, “I think I was partially so vehement because of my
own war.”

It’s a compelling theory — and now there is scientific reason to believe
it. In this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, we and our fellow researchers provide empirical evidence that homophobia can result, at least in part, from the suppression of same-sex desire.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Iron Man, whose unit also developed original intelligence on al-Qaeda targets, which determined that the "most likely buildings to be attacked in the U.S." were the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, claimed JFIC was told to stop tracking Bin Laden, suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, and members of the Taliban some months prior to 9/11.

In front of thousands of service members, President Obama today signed an executive order aimed at protecting veterans from for-profit educational institutions trying to "swindle" and "hoodwink" them instead of providing the education they deserve.

A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh "enhanced interrogation techniques" the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced counter-terrorism breakthroughs.

People familiar with the inquiry said committee
investigators, who have been poring over records from the administration
of President George W. Bush, believe they do not substantiate claims by some Bush supporters that the harsh interrogations led to counter-terrorism coups.

It is pathetic that the Republicans did not join in this report, but then many of them are little Cheney's themselves.

Oft-mentioned potential VP nominee Marco Rubio is, by Republican
standards, a moderate on immigration. Perhaps in large part because of a
portion of his family's history he may not wish to dwell on. It seems
that his maternal grandfather came to the United States illegally during
the Batista Regime. Three years later when Castro came to power he saw
an opportunity and went back to Cuba to try to take advantage.

Three years later, and now disaffected, the same grandfather hopped
on to an airplane for the United States without a visa. Once here, he
was adjudicated to be in the United States illegally. However, he
remained in the United States and gained legal residency in 1967
-- by lying about when he came to the country, saying it was 1965. In
other words, an illegal aliens -- in Antonin Scalia's words "a virtual bank robber."

These facts are at variance with what Rubio long has claimed as his
background -- though he himself, obviously, is an American citizen (I
won't even demand the long-form certificate), he embellished his
family's history -- even more than usual -- and made it a political tool for his ascension.

But the most telling aspect of this is how Marco Rubio's story would
play out were his family not historically from Cuba, but Mexico. You
know, like Mitt Romney's family.

Rupert Murdoch has apparently lost a great deal of his power of memory, but nature has compensated by endowing him with a vivid imagination. He can surely deploy his new gift in the service of Fox movies. There is the great scene he pitched to Lord Justice Leveson on Wednesday morning where the editor of the Times enters left, closes the door behind him and begs: "Look, tell me what you want to say, what do you want me to say, and it need not leave this room and I'll say it." And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."

"But does the attorney general come in and say, you know, we might really only want to go after the professional bank robbers?" Scalia said. "If it's just an amateur bank robber, you know, we're going to let it go. And the state's interfering with our whole scheme here because it's prosecuting all these bank robbers."

No, but if the state passed a law saying that you, Antonin Scalia, had to be stopped and forced to produce an ID because of your surname, and your complexion, and because people with similar surnames and similar complexions are notable for their involvement in organized crime, including bank robbery, I suspect you'd object just a little. Whoever first commented on how clever this guy is should roast on a spit for eternity.

Donald Trump on Wednesday swept into Scotland's
parliament to demand the country end plans for an offshore wind farm he
fears will spoil the view at his exclusive new $750-million-pound
($1.2-billion) golf resort...

"Scotland, if you pursue this policy of these monstrous turbines,
Scotland will go broke," he said. "They are ugly, they are noisy and
they are dangerous. If Scotland does this, Scotland will be in serious
trouble and will lose tourism to places like Ireland, and they are
laughing at us."

Although if Scotland went bankrupt...repeatedly... it would then have
something in common with Trump. And Trump sure thinks people are
laughing at other people a lot.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Of course, all of us should be honored to be listed on the TIME 100 alongside the two men who will be slugging it out in the fall: President Obama, and the man who would defeat him, David Koch.

Give it up everybody. David Koch.

Little known fact -- David, nice to see you again, sir.
Little known fact, David's brother Charles Koch is actually even more influential. Charles pledged $40 million to defeat President Obama, David only $20 million. That's kind of cheap, Dave.
Sure, he's all for buying the elections, but when the bill for democracy comes up, Dave's always in the men's room. I'm sorry, I must have left Wisconsin in my other coat.

I was particularly excited to meet David Koch earlier tonight because I have a Super PAC, Colbert Super PAC, and I am -- thank you, thank you -- and I am happy to announce Mr. Koch has pledged $5 million to my Super PAC. And the great thing is, thanks to federal election law, there's no way for you to ever know whether that's a joke.

By the way, if David Koch likes his waiter tonight, he will be your next congressman....

But perhaps the most influential person on the list is here, Sara Blakely. The inventor of the Spanx. Give it up.

No one, no one has done more to control women's bodies, except maybe Cardinal Dolan.
Cardinal, congratulations, sir, you are afeminist icon.

Scruffy Rubin and Snickers Carter had a wedding many couples dream of, featuring 100 guests, a wedding cake, open bar, receptionist and even security. But while the newlyweds are reportedly happy together, that are not actually human.
The Desert Sun reports that actual humans Ernie Rubin and Ann Carter got together to throw Scruffy and Snickers a $5,000 wedding at the Palm Desert Resort Country Club in Palm Desert, Calif., on Sunday.

Ariane Friedrich, a German high jumper expected to contend for a medal at the upcoming Summer Olympics, posted the name and email address of a Facebook stalker who had allegedly been sending her explicit photographs over the social networking service.

Obviously, I'm all for most all internet privacy, but not to the extent people should be abused like this -- good for Ariane Friedrich.

Newt Gingrich hinted this week that his presidential
campaign could come to an end soon, but regardless of what happens in
Tuesday's five-state primary, Gingrich will not use his election-night
speech to drop out of the race, a spokesman for his campaign told Yahoo
News.

No this is his last shot at talking about his "fiscal conservative"
credentials, that only he can stop government waste (hence Barack Obama =
"Food Stamp President").

His think tank went bankrupt. His campaign is $4.3
million in debt. He doesn’t hold a prayer of beating Mitt Romney,
something he has all but conceded. And yet since March 6th, the
Secret Service has honored his request for protection at a cost to
taxpayers of roughly $40,000 a day (or, to translate that into a metric Newt might favor, enough to supply 13,333 people a day with food stamps).

As noted here,
there are guidelines to qualify for Secret Service protection -- but
not really any for ending it, as long as you are technically still in
the race.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Romney pointed out that the selection process for a vice presidential candidate is just beginning. "We're looking at various legal resources to help with in that process, accounting staff and so forth to take a look at tax returns and things of that nature,"

Mitt Romney, who is one of the wealthiest men ever to seek the presidency, said on Wednesday that he had no intention of releasing his tax returns if he became the Republican presidential nominee, breaking with a long tradition in both parties.

My cable company added a load of high-def channels this weekend, and as usual, they added a couple of shitty channels in a package that had about 10 channels I wanted. Thus I am getting FoxBusiness in HD.

Let me tell you, Lou Dobbs false-teetch can be heard creaking around in 5.1 sound, even as you channel surf.

You may recall that pretty much the first half of April 2012 the main
topic of the Presidential campaign was trying to tie Hilary Rosen, a
long-time democratic strategist to the Obama campaign because she said
something accurate, in a brusque manner, about Ann Ronmey. This became,
according to the Romney Campaign, an awesome present and also simultaneously a vile attack on mothers everywhere.

Just as that issue faded, on Thursday, April 18th the Romney campaign
hired a new foreign policy spokesperson, Richard Grenell. And what a
"present" he is. He's managed to scrub hundreds of tweets critical of women far worse than anything Hilary Rosen ever uttered, from Republicans like Calista Gingrich, to Rachel Maddow, to Michelle Obama.

Hired almost exactly at the time the Rosen matter died out. Yet not a
peep out of the major news sources that devoted about ten straight days
to the Rosen story. It almost makes you think there might be bias.

An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his
refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a
fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules
politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal
authorities who were — and are still — investigating him on two fronts...

In the September 2009 speech in Houston, Arpaio boasted that he arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants
after politicians and federal investigators started to pick apart his
patrols. He said he wouldn't cooperate with the inquiry, but said he
would tone down the patrols — if he was proven wrong.

"But
I'm not. After they went after me, we arrested 500 more just for
spite," the self-proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" said, pausing
for laughter and applause.

It will be a sweet day when this two-bit charlatan and petty dictator is indicted.

Last week President Obama made a speech which included a political line that had the rare quality of being true:

“I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle
wasn’t. Somebody gave us a chance. Just like these folks up here are
looking for a chance.”

The line had the additional bonus of making an unspoken comparison
between Obama and his Republican opponent who was, to put it mildly, to
the manor born. Such implied comparisons, or far more explicit ones,
have been part-in-parcel of American politics at least back to the days
of Andrew Jackson.

But that really isn't the point. The point is that FoxNews took this clever, but not that clever a line, and turned into the "class war" outrage de jour. And they did so by adding words that were not there.

Steve Doocy of Fox News, who while interviewing Romney on
live TV Thursday, quoted Obama as saying, “Unlike some people, I wasn’t
born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”But Obama never prefaced his statement with the words “unlike some people”

That Steve Doocy would push false stories about Obama is no surprise. After all he is the man who made the most "FoxNewsian" false claim of them all:

Sunday, April 22, 2012

The teapartiers may be less popular with the general public, but when they turn Orin Hatch into someone who is "too liberal" we have indeed found that even James Cameron cannot go as deep as the depths of wingnut delusion.

Apparently conservative (for France) practices are not popular when put into place, as opposed to just bloviating about them on cable news.

French voters headed to the polls on Sunday in round one of a presidential ballot, with economic despair on course to make Nicolas Sarkozy the first president to lose a fight for re-election in more than 30 years.

In a contest driven
as much by a dislike of Sarkozy's showy style and his failure to bring
down unemployment as by policy differences, Sarkozy and his Socialist
rival Francois Hollande are pegged to beat eight other candidates to go through to a May 6 runoff, where polls give Hollande a double-digit lead.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

And yet it's Obama the right is always calling presumptuous (as in, how dare he be black):

Former Governor Mitt Romney is already offering top donors access to a
special "Presidential Inaugural retreat," planned on the assumption
that he will be elected president this November.

The offer, in a
fundraising email circulated by a top Georgia supporter to fellow
Republicans and obtained by BuzzFeed, is one of several goodies offered
to those who contribute more than $50,000 to the joint fundraising
committee known as "Romney Victory," a program whose outlines were first reported by POLITICO.

Those
donors will be named "Founding Members" of Romney Victory and invited
to a California retreat with Romney and offered "yet to be determined
access at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August."

Souless Robots have an easier time selling themselves than mere humans.

Funny how that always seems to happen and it seems not to register with our overlords who are determined to crush us:

...turns out that Wisconsin was the only state in the entire country to lose
jobs in 2011, while Illinois had better than average growth. The
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia also predicted strong economic
growth in Illinois, while placing Wisconsin last in its forecast

Neighboring states, Illinois did not try to kill its unions, raised taxes on the wealthy and refused to engage in austerity. Wisconsin did the opposite.

Oh dear, the Iranian government is making concessions in the wake of stronger sanctions (another non-credited victory for diplomacy). As David Swanson at Firedoglake notes, this peace agenda is getting in the way of the war many of our "serious people" have been planning.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Vatican, your home for mockeries of Justice from Stephen VI/VII (cannot even get the number right) to Galileo to Pius XII to prepubescent boys everywhere, has drawn another line in the sand as the tide rolls in.

The Vatican orthodoxy watchdog announced Wednesday a full-scale overhaul of the largest umbrella group for nuns in the United States, accusing the group of taking positions that undermine Roman Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."

Yes, side with Bill Donohue -- that will win you points with American Catholics -- you know the actual ever diminishing congregants.
(photo via The Soup, easily the only thing worth watching on E!)

But silver-spoon emanated Mitt Romney was ready with his most pithy reply:
Damn straight, during a recession a person should be more focused on pursuits with a more common touch:

“She [Ann Romney] has Austrian Warmbloods, which are –
yeah, it’s a dressage horse, it’s a kind of horse for the sport that
she’s in. Me, I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine is like a quarter
horse, but just a much better gait. It moves very fast, and doesn’t
tire, and it’s easy to ride, meaning it’s not boom-boom-boom, it’s just
smooth, very smooth.”

The World Cup finals for the elite sport of dancing
horses, known as dressage, opened today in the Netherlands without the
presence of two of its most prominent wealthy devotees, Mitt and Ann
Romney. The Romneys' horse, Rafalca, will compete, however, performing to music personally selected by the Republican presidential candidate.

That's not losing focus on the important things in these difficult times.

It more or less comes back to the same conclusion: for some reason Bush
became afraid to land his plane and so he quit flying and, like other
privileged princes at the time, found a way to check out of his
obligation early. And he seems to have been in some kind of other
"trouble" at the time but nobody knows exactly what it was. What's new
is the dirty cover up in Texas political circles going back years. There
are obviously people who know the truth. Certainly George W Bush does.
But they're not telling. Yet.

Yet more evidence of the moral authority the Vatican (and its especially conservative Opus Die order) has in having hissy-fits about ladies having some control over lady-parts:

Why a known-mobster like De Pedis is buried on the grounds of a Vatican
church has been the object of much speculation since 1997, when a
church maid revealed the tomb’s existence to an inquisitive journalist.
The Vatican was always cagey about why the mobster was buried in one of
its churches, and ultimately, the church’s silence spurred countless
conspiracy theories. Now, thanks to shocking Vatican letters leaked in
the Vatileaks
scandal that is rocking the Holy See, the Italian police are less
interested in why he’s buried there. Instead, they want to open the tomb
to see if the remains of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi are interred with
those of the mobster.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Hey, speaking of the Washington Post editorial page, we see the high standards it has set for its substantial role in public discourse.
And who better than Richard Cohen?

Though I have a feeling it will not work out that way (my money is on Commander Bunny Pants, surely the most poetically deserving of all the contenders for "Face of the Naughts") -- Atrios may make this a big day indeed for A.C.T. (UPDATE: nevermind, he was named last week...I'm a bad blogger) and Cohen shows why he's such a viable contender for all manner of dubious distinctions -- and does it literally in less than his first dozen words:

Among the attributes I most envy in a public man (or woman) is the ability to lie.

Oh sure, it's a jaw-droppingly awful thing to write...but the man is nothing if not efficient in demonstrating his bona fides.

Only 35 percent of Americans see the presumptive Republican nominee favorably, with 47 percent seeing him unfavorably, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday. That makes Mr. Romney the first likely nominee to start the general election contest “underwater,” with more seeing him unfavorably than favorably, in the 28 years and eight presidential cycles the ABC/Post poll has been measuring candidates.

He is especially unliked among women. So get ready for that next great Republican voting reform project:

In the midst of the back and forth, O’Donnell brought up a quote Coulter gave to The Guardian in 2003 in which she said that women were one group she believed should have their right to vote taken away. When pressed by O’Donnell, Coulter stood by her comments, arguing that every election since 1950, aside from the 1964 Barry Goldwater election, would have been won by Republicans had it not been for women. Coulter said this presents enough reason to disenfranchise women.
O’Donnell pushed further, asking Coulter how she would feel personally if she couldn’t vote. She responded: “If my entire gender loses it too, then I’m OK with it.”

How many of the folks with establishment-media access who do deign to notice that Fred Malek is hosting her birthday party will bother to mention his main claim to infamy (hint: it doesn’t involve barbecuing dogs)?
I suspect the answers will be “not many” and “none at all”.

The latter.

The Romney's and fellow dog-abusers (and in a way abuser of Jews) joining together.

Of the insurance mandate, especially vis-a-vis single payer, but I don't have much doubt it's constitutional.

However, when Scalia has his hissy fit he'll have a hard time dealing with "original intent" -- well he would if he had a scintilla of intellectual integrity...so he will not:

The framers, challengers have claimed, thought a constitutional ban
on purchase mandates was too “obvious” to mention. Their core basis for
this claim is that purchase mandates are unprecedented, which they say
would not be the case if it was understood this power existed.

But there’s a major problem with this line of argument: It just isn’t
true. The founding fathers, it turns out, passed several mandates of
their own. In 1790, the very first Congress—which incidentally included
20 framers—passed a law that included a mandate: namely, a requirement
that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. This law was
then signed by another framer: President George Washington. That’s
right, the father of our country had no difficulty imposing a health
insurance mandate.

That’s not all. In 1792, a Congress with 17 framers passed another
statute that required all able-bodied men to buy firearms. Yes, we used
to have not only a right to bear arms, but a federal duty to buy them.
Four framers voted against this bill, but the others did not, and it was
also signed by Washington. Some tried to repeal this gun purchase
mandate on the grounds it was too onerous, but only one framer voted to
repeal it.

Six years later, in 1798, Congress addressed the problem that the
employer mandate to buy medical insurance for seamen covered drugs and
physician services but not hospital stays. And you know what this
Congress, with five framers serving in it, did? It enacted a federal law
requiring the seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. That’s
right, Congress enacted an individual mandate requiring the purchase of health insurance. And this act was signed by another founder, President John Adams.

Not only did most framers support these federal mandates to buy firearms and health insurance, but there is no evidence that any of the few framers who voted against these mandates ever objected on constitutional grounds.

But never mind, Scalia and company will just do what they want. After all, who knows the Constitution better, Scalia and Thomas or James Madison, John Jay and George Washington. The latter are mental pygmies in comparison, clearly.

How shocking that Murdoch's hacking scandal continues to grow and goes to ever more prestigious (well previously so) parts of his empire:

Rupert Murdoch's Times of London is facing a claim for exemplary damages after admitting hacking into the email of an anonymous police blogger to expose his identity, lawyer Mark Lewis told Reuters on Friday.

Lewis, of law firm Taylor Hampton and representing police detective Richard Horton,
said Horton had filed for misuse of confidential information, breach of
confidence and deceit at London's High Court this week.

A Christian charity which sponsored a conference
promoting the idea that gay people can be converted to heterosexuality
has funded interns for an estimated 20 MPs, including some who are now
ministers in the coalition government.

The Christian Action Research and Education charity (Care) has
provided staff to the parliamentary offices of Caroline Spelman,
Alistair Burt and Steve Webb. In 2009 it sponsored a London conference
about homosexuality and Christianity which included sessions on
"mentoring the sexually broken".

Looks like Michele and Marcus Bachmann have a reason to inspect the Crown Jewels this Summer.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

A few months ago I stated that Mitt Romney's strategy was to lie so much and so often that by the time the general election started he will be perceived as such a soulless empty suit that all the lying ends up allowing people to think he's almost human (I'm going to pretend I'm the only one who said this).

Being in Iowa it is not uncommon to hear of people traveling to "Bible-Belt Vegas" i.e. Branson. I was once asked whether I wanted to ever go there. I know this is liberal elitism (i.e. good taste) and it is to the extent any elitism is justified when one is well entrenched within the bottom 99 percent of Des Moines, Iowa of all places, but I responded:

"I don't really like NASCAR, I don't really like Country music and I don't like Klan rallies, why would I go to a place that charges you to combine all three?"

There are days when it is best to not watch any cable news. For me
personally, those are the days of the week that end in "Y". But without
even watching them I know that the big "important" discussion of
yesterday can be summarized thusly:

Mitt Romney decries Barack Obama for never having run a
business while also saying his source for how voters feel about the
economy is his wife, who has never run a business. How dare a Democrat
point out this glaring inconsistency! Clearly liberals are decrying the
model of motherhood we hold sacrosanct but which our economic policies
have made impossible...unless you are rich, like Mitt and Ann Romney.
Harrumph, Harrumph.

Thanks right-wing Wurlitzer, for keeping us focused on the unimportant stuff. Good job cable news.
Hey, speaking of cable news...

On Thursday, attorneys at Epstein Becker & Green P.C. sent Gawker publisher Nick Denton a letter
urging his blog to “immediately stop publishing information and videos
that have been unlawfully obtained by or from Joe Muto, and return them
to Fox News.”

But that’s not all. The letter also urges Gawker to protect all
evidence and material Muto gave Gawker. The letter claims that Gawker
and Muto — a now-former associate producer at Fox News, who until
Wednesday night remained anonymous — likely engaged in “criminal and
civil wrongdoing,” which will be the subject of further investigation by
Fox.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Sarah Palin’s political action committee raised $388,000 in the first three months of the year, but it spent $418,000 and didn’t give a dime to any candidates — which is the purported purpose of the PAC.
Instead, Sarah PAC spent $255,000 on fundraising and a small team of political consultants that Palin has continued to support even as she receded from the political spotlight during the heat of the GOP presidential primary. It also appears to have spent $19,000 on a video rebutting the HBO film “Game Change.”

And, of course, she's grifting:

Sarah PAC, a so-called leadership PAC set up to help the former Alaska governor maintain a political presence, finished March with $983,000 in the bank, according to a report filed Wednesday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.

The Justice Department has given up on settling with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and is planning to sue the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for systematic civil rights abuses of Hispanic residents, a DOJ official indicated in a terse letter to Arpaio’s lawyer on Wednesday.
“It is clear that DOJ’s concerted effort to attain voluntary compliance by your client has failed,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division wrote in a letter to Arpaio lawyer Joseph Popolizio obtained by TPM.

Reading the article does not paint Mr. Popolizio in a positive light and makes one wonder if he is not better suited for being fired or embarrassed at a major college athletic program, although he may be missing the all important middle "T" (Patino, Paterno, Petrino, which sounds like a bad parody of something Julius Caesar wrote).

As TBogg noted yesterday FoxNews is dispensing it's top-notch "Fox Security" on the trail of the alleged insider that Gawker has retained. So far, this has been done as successfully as Roger Ailes did on the South Beach Diet.

Mark Lewis, the lawyer who has been at the forefront of efforts to expose the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, is poised to bring the battle for legal redress across the Atlantic and to the doorstep of Rupert Murdoch's media empire...

Details remain sketchy about precisely what Lewis intends to do in
the US, but the Guardian has learned that he will be having legal
discussions that could lead to several lawsuits being lodged with the
New York courts. The direct involvement of the US judicial system in
allegations of illegal activity by News Corp employees would bring the
scandal dramatically closer to Murdoch's adopted home.

Looks like Rupert and Roger are going to have a rough weekend. Thank goodness James Murdoch has some free time now so he'll be available for stress abuse. Hope he likes gimp-suits.

Newt Gingrich is trying to position himself as the challenger to Mitt Romney — or as he said in an email to supporters today, “the last conservative standing.”
But that may be difficult, given the former House speaker’s anemic
fundraising and non-existent campaign organization. Case in point: A $500 check Gingrich wrote bounced.

Although it isn't terribly funny to the businesses that Gingrich screwed over (and he wasn't even married to them).

What a predictable person reach out to if you have a problem with
mistreating a black person, Sean Hannity knows in advance who the real
victim is, the one with less melanin.

The guy who cut his teeth in radio filling in for Bob Grant and having avowed racists call to rant about African Americans and mocking Abner Louima
when he was "Giuliani-timed" by the New York City police has become the
go to talking head for making a black victim into a villain.

For which he is handsomely paid.

Meanwhile, no one seems to know where Zimmerman is, except he isn't in Florida and, according to his now former "lawyers of the year", may not be competent. Oh and he can still carry around that 9mm.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

With Santorum out of the equation now is your time Herman Cain. Say Herman why is Romney losing so badly to Obama with women?

President Obama is very likable to most people, if you just look at him and his family. But if you look at his policies, which is what most people disagree with, it’s a different story. And I think many men are much more familiar with the failed policies than a lot of other people, as well as the general public.

Wow, no sexism there.

Oh, and there's men and there's "other people". So ladies at least you are technically people to Herman Cain...aka potential love interests.

Mississippi has the highest teen birthrate in the nation while New Hampshire has the lowest, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, following up on a report that found the incidence of pregnancy among U.S. teens was falling.
Mississippi reported 55 births per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19 in 2010, more than 60 percent above the U.S. average, according to state data released on Tuesday. New Hampshire's rate was less half the national average at 15.7 births for the same age group.
Teen birth rates were higher in the South and Southwest and lower in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, the CDC said, noting that Hispanics and blacks had the highest teen birth rates.

On the heels of yesterday's unsurprising news that conservatism comes from a predominance of "low-level" thinking, we have an idea what nether-regions these thoughts go to.

The life of the ludicrously rich in Japan is indeed tough. You get to go on exotic vacations
constantly, but each trip requires you to find a house sitter for your
pet sheep. Thankfully, though, the well-off Japanese businessman has a
new, elegant solution: Hotel Sheep.

Apparently, owning a pet sheep is the latest luxury for the wealthy and fashionable
in Japan. The animals are prized for their gentle demeanor. And because
they're insanely cute and cuddly, they're adored to the point where
luxury away accommodations are a must.

Contradicting reports from the United Nations last week
that Syria's government had agreed to a cease fire that would have gone
into effect on Thursday, the Syrian government said Sunday it would not
withdraw troops from restive areas unless it received "written
agreements" from armed rebels dedicated to the ouster of Syrian
president Bashar al Assad.

When have such initial reports a cease-fire ever not had a major hitch, short of forced immediate capitulation?

What the Assad government wants, of course, is for the opposition to
lay down their arms, promise to not oppose him and for foreign
governments to stop supporting the opposition.

And with that the article continues with a line from the annals of understatement:

The central question that emerges--and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by meerely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal--is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes--the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced ace. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the median cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists. The question, as far as the White community is concerned, is whether the claims of civilization supersede those of universal suffrage. The British believe they do, and acted accordingly, in Kenya, where the choice was dramatically one between civilization and barbarism, and elsewhere; the South, where the conflict is byno means dramatic, as in Kenya, nevertheless perceives important qualitative differences between its culture and the Negroes', and intends to assert its own.
National Review believes that the South's premises are correct.

That was 1957 when Dwight Eisenhower was President. Fifty-five years later, we have so-called conservative intellectuals not-named John Derbyshire writing about Obama and his "Kenyan Mentality" -- some arguments, no matter how stupid, never die -- and if you are conservative they remain profitable.

Which brings us to long-time idiot and just as long-time National Review Editor John Derbyshire's article in another publication that one cannot read without that lower jaw attempting to depart the balance of one's face. This is the face of overt and subtle conservative thought. It's been out there and openly on display for some time -- never really called out except by us intentionally marginalized dirty fucking hippies.

Somewhat conveniently, this is video of Bruce Lee kicking the face and the remainder of said racist's ass (blue/white horizontally-striped shirt).